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But now you’re paying for keeping a server online, whereas a GitHub page could’ve hosted this static website for free.

by weejewel 5y ago

cinntaile 5y ago
He did this for fun, his motivation wasn't to find the cheapest way to host his content.
- dividedbyzero 5y ago
  It's also not like you'd have to have a separate server/vserver for every such project, a very affordable vserver will run quite a lot of nginx containers. Plus I guess some people will have a vserver or something like that anyway (I have a small one to get around NAT at the ISP level), in which case it might be net-zero.
  - 867-5309 5y ago
    >get around NAT at the ISP level genuinely interested in the benefits of this. care to share?
    - dividedbyzero 5y ago
      My ISP puts everyone behind some sort of NAT, which means I can't reach my home network from elsewhere since I can't open ports. They'd let me buy my own IP address for a monthly fee, but I've found that an old Pi I already had, an autossh-ed reverse shell, SSH forwarding and a cheap cloud instance work just fine for checking sensors and the like, cost less and the cloud instance has other uses, too.
      - 867-5309 5y ago
        I see, so NAT traversal over SSH as opposed to VPN/DDNS
- hsn915 5y ago
  I honestly don't understand where's the fun in using docker for anything. Unless one is into masochism.
  - dolmen 5y ago
    Especially to host what could be implemented as a single static HTML file.
cyral 5y ago
React is compiled to static content so this could be hosted with GitHub pages too
shepherdjerred 5y ago
There's no reason that this would have to be hosted on a traditional server.
moltar 5y ago
I build static sites in Docker too. But then simply extract the built files out and upload them to any static hosting I need. This allows me to self contain all the build tooling. And allows other developers to setup a dev environment in a few easy steps.
quickthrower2 5y ago
Free as in beer, yes

But now you’re paying for keeping a server online, whereas a GitHub page could’ve hosted this static website for free.

cinntaile 5y ago

He did this for fun, his motivation wasn't to find the cheapest way to host his content.

dividedbyzero 5y ago
It's also not like you'd have to have a separate server/vserver for every such project, a very affordable vserver will run quite a lot of nginx containers. Plus I guess some people will have a vserver or something like that anyway (I have a small one to get around NAT at the ISP level), in which case it might be net-zero.
- 867-5309 5y ago
  >get around NAT at the ISP level genuinely interested in the benefits of this. care to share?
  - dividedbyzero 5y ago
    My ISP puts everyone behind some sort of NAT, which means I can't reach my home network from elsewhere since I can't open ports. They'd let me buy my own IP address for a monthly fee, but I've found that an old Pi I already had, an autossh-ed reverse shell, SSH forwarding and a cheap cloud instance work just fine for checking sensors and the like, cost less and the cloud instance has other uses, too.
    - 867-5309 5y ago
      I see, so NAT traversal over SSH as opposed to VPN/DDNS
hsn915 5y ago
I honestly don't understand where's the fun in using docker for anything. Unless one is into masochism.
- dolmen 5y ago
  Especially to host what could be implemented as a single static HTML file.

cyral 5y ago

React is compiled to static content so this could be hosted with GitHub pages too

shepherdjerred 5y ago

There's no reason that this would have to be hosted on a traditional server.

moltar 5y ago

I build static sites in Docker too. But then simply extract the built files out and upload them to any static hosting I need. This allows me to self contain all the build tooling. And allows other developers to setup a dev environment in a few easy steps.

quickthrower2 5y ago

Free as in beer, yes